URGENT HELP ! SAYING ENERGY BILL IS £42 PER DAY!

theoretica

Over the last year have you acquired any new appliances, started using any you had hardly touched previously or had any work dome on existing ones?  Any major changes relating to lockdown (eg heating all day).

Mouldymeat3

Do you have a shared roof void? Friend had problems selling her rented-out terrace property because the neighbours had annexed her roof space.

ChrisB148

Hello all,

thank you all once again for the advice

I will do the various suggestions tonight when I get back home from work.

The house is a detached all run on electricity no gas feed into the house. so showers / radiators all electric.

no new appliances in the house around that date of spike and potentially an increased in usage for being at home more with the pandemic, but we do not keep heating on all day and were always conscious of turning lights off / plugs and energy saving bulbs etc.

Alter_ego

Radiators all electric is a clue

Ectophile

What about the immersion heater for the hot tank?  If that's on all the time, and if the thermostat has failed, then that would take 3kW constantly.

Jackson00

Hi Chris, what you fundamentally need to establish and understand is what is causing the usage of electric, you need to find out what items are switched on and using the most. You can switch things off locally or at the consumer unit and monitor the meter readings, maybe over a short length of time which has already been suggested would be sufficient, obviously all electric heating would contribute greatly to the overall consumption, however it seems puzzling that the increase started in August when heating would normally be at low requirements.

Ectophile suggested that the emersion heater thermostat may be at fault, this is a possibility but I would have thought you would have noticed that the hot water being at a much greater temperature  than normal if not boiling. 

Gerry1

What does the In Home Device (the portable shiny toy) tell you?

tim_p

Ectophile said:

What about the immersion heater for the hot tank?  If that's on all the time, and if the thermostat has failed, then that would take 3kW constantly.

You’d hear it boiling away and there would almost certainly be other clues as to what was going on (boiling water from the taps for a start!). 

MWT

Gerry1 said:

What does the In Home Device (the portable shiny toy) tell you?

Gerry is right to ask.. If you have the IHD available (small screen with a mains adapter, perhaps stuffed in a drawer somewhere) then it will tell you exactly how much power you are using at any particular moment.

niktheguru

Don’t the Ihds stop working when you switch to a provider who doesn’t support the meter. I know my British Gas one stopped.